Esenboga International Airport attack

The Esenboga International Airport attack occurred on 7 August 1982 when ASALA gunmen Zohrab Sarkissian and Levon Ekmekjian killed 9 people and injured 72 in an attack on the Esenboga International Airport in Ankara, Turkey. The terrorists detonated a bomb in the middle of the crowded check-in area and opened fire on the crowds with submachine guns, and one of the perpetrators taunted the passengers, telling them that one million Armenians died during the Armenian Genocide, and that nobody would care if just 25 Turks were killed. The gunmen then took 20 hostages in the airport cafeteria, and security forces killed Sarkissian and wounded and captured Ekmekjian, who was hanged in 1983.